A general store in the Big Bend country
Object Details
- Date made
- 1937
- photographer
- Mydans, Carl
- Description
- When Carl Mydans first started working for LIFE magazine, he was asked to go to Texas and document everything from its last great cattle drive to its tough oil towns. He stopped in the town of Terlingua, a community that had sprung up around some quicksilver mines and the water sources nearby. In the early 1900s, mine workers, and those that supported the mines by farming or by cutting timber for use in the mines and smelters, began to settle in the area. Once the mercury boom ceased, the population slowly dispersed and Terlingua essentially became a ghost town.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- place made
- United States: Texas, Terlingua
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Photography
- Carl Mydans
- Related Publication
- Mydans, Carl. Carl Mydans, Photojournalist
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 2005.0228.026
- accession number
- 2005.0228
- catalog number
- 2005.0228.026
- Object Name
- photograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in x 10 in; 20.32 cm x 25.4 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- nmah_1303277
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